Strait
[streɪt] or [stret]
解释:
(noun.) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water.
(adj.) narrow; 'strait is the gate' .
比安卡手打--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) A variant of Straight.
(superl.) Narrow; not broad.
(superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.
(superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
(superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
(superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.
(superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
(adv.) Strictly; rigorously.
(a.) A narrow pass or passage.
(a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.
(a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.
(a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
(v. t.) To put to difficulties.
霍华德编辑
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Narrow, close, contracted, constricted, not broad, not wide.[2]. Strict, rigorous, rigid, severe.
n. [1]. Narrow pass (especially between two seas), gut, narrows.[2]. Distress, difficulty, perplexity, dilemma, embarrassment, pinch, exigency, emergency, critical situation.
录入:提托
同义词及反义词：
[See NARROW]
SYN:Close, strict, narrow,[See BOISTEROUS]
手打:利蒂希娅
解释:
adj. difficult: distressful: (obs. strict rigorous: narrow so in B.).—n. a narrow pass in a mountain or in the ocean between two portions of land: difficulty distress.—v.t. to stretch tighten: to distress.—v.t. Strait′en to make strait or narrow: to confine: to draw tight: to distress: to put into difficulties.—adjs. Straight′-heart′ed stingy; Strait′-laced rigid or narrow in opinion.—adv. Strait′ly narrowly: (B.) strictly.—ns. Strait′ness state of being strait or narrow: strictness: (B.) distress or difficulty; Strait′-waist′coat Strait′-jack′et a dress made with long sleeves which are tied behind so that the arms are confined.
阿尔塔编辑
例句:
- I simply tell you that I am in a strait. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The strait is only thirteen miles wide in its narrowest part. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Many that want food and clothing have cheerier lives and brighter prospects than she had; many, harassed by poverty, are in a strait less afflictive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- It is a great strait, my child. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- So do nuns, with their close cell, their iron lamp, their robe strait as a shroud, their bed narrow as a coffin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- His person was pretty good; strait, stout, and middle-sized, with a good, fair, Irish allowance of leg. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The candle cannot be seen unless the three pinholes are in a strait line. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- I have good reason to know that she is in some strait, arising out of some attachment; and she needs womanly counsel. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Bering Strait, when this came into existence, before or after the Pluvial Period, isolated the Amer-Indians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The allusion served as a timely reminder to Darnay that this disagreeable companion had, of his own free will, assisted him in the strait of the day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The width of the strait is divided by these towers into four spans--two of 460 feet each, and two of 230 feet. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The Menai tubular railway bridge, adjacent to the suspension bridge of Telford across the same strait, and already described, was the first example of this type of bridge. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The large, strait, gauze sleeve did not at all conceal the symmetry of her beautiful arm. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Seeing him, I felt that I was in a dangerous strait indeed, and I kept my eyes upon him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- To this day France is cramped by this early nineteenth-century strait-waistcoat into which he clapped her. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- That bridge, though of different material, was in its principle of construction similar to the iron tubular bridges at Conway and at the Menai Straits. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Permission could not be obtained to interfere with the navigation of the Straits in the slightest degree during the building, and so piers and arches could not be used. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- I had paid for all the experiments on the quadruplex and exhausted the money, and I was again in straits. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Robert designed the tubular bridge across the Menai Straits on this line, which was considered a most remarkable feat. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- No tear dropped over that pillow; in such straits as these, the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- And, woman, though dressed in silk and jewels, you are but a woman, and, in life's great straits and mighty griefs, ye feel but one sorrow! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- And into the straits of Royd Lane they accordingly defiled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I then left my station, and ran to the entrance of the works, where I got into a boat, and bade the men pull out as far as they could into the middle of the Straits. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The Russian Baltic Fleet sailed round Africa to be utterly destroyed in the Straits of Tshu-shima. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I told him Mr. Orton had gone off and left me without means, and I was in straits. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- She started up and bounded towards him in an instant: he was evidently in great straits for breath. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Sound is conveyed through these cavities as readily as through speaking tubes, and conversation can be thus easily carried on across the Straits. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Then there came to Terkoz's rescue the same thing that had put him in these sore straits--a man's reasoning power. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Sicily fell completely to Carthage, and Rome came down to the toe and heel of Italy, and looked across the Straits of Messina at her new rival. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Britannia Bridge, across the Menai Straits, was a triumphant response to the call for a new kind of suspended roadway adapted to the requirements of railways. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
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